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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Madang in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.3291S, 146.5528WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 118.14 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/05/20 / 2020-05-24 21:36:48 / May 24, 2020 @ 9:36 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009pnb. Unique identifier: us70009pnb. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:36:48 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 118.14 km, 146.5528° East, -5.3291° South.

Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madang. Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 84 km E of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.5528° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.3291° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km E of Madang, Papua New Guinea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-24 21:36:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-24 21:54:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70009pnb Id of event.
Event Code 70009pnb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009pnb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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